Ventilators lie idle in Cuttack’s community health centres even as virus surge continues- The New Indian Express

CUTTACK: In Cuttack district, where Covid surge continues unabated and critical patients face immense problems in availing life support, four ventilators installed at as many Community Health Centres (CHCs) in chronic kidney disease-prone Badamba and Narasinghpur blocks are yet to be made functional.
Ironically, it is Cuttack MP from Biju Janata Dal Bhartruhari Mahtab who had provided funds from his MP LAD fund for the ventilators but the equipment is lying idle.
Though the Cuttack administration claims to have strengthened its healthcare facilities across the district to meet the need arising out of the increasing Covid-19 infection, the ground reality presents a different picture.
Before the Covid outbreak, Mahtab sanctioned funds from MPLAD fund for installation of one ventilator each at Maniabandha, Badamba, Kanpur and Narasinghpur CHCs so that critical health care to people belonging to the CKD-prone localities of the district is met when the